Tag Archives: Middle East

Fifty years ago, Israel’s Six-Day War turned the Middle East upside down. Hardly any other war has changed the political landscape of a region so fast and so fundamentally. The stunning victory of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over three Arab armies in just six days established the Jewish state as a regional great power,…

Deal part of US$65b package sealed during visit of King Salman Saudi Arabia’s key science and technology organisation has confirmed that one of the deals sealed during Saudi King Salman’s visit to China this month was an agreement to set up the first factory for Chinese hunter-killer aerial drones in the Middle East. IHS Jane’s…

Restrictions on the supply of offensive weapons, including warplanes and tanks, to Iran, still remain and will stay in place until 2020 The Islamic Republic of Iran has not recently purchased any weapons from Russia apart from the S-300 missile systems delivered last year, the country’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan told the Tasnim news agency…

Global defence companies’ revenue is forecast to rise by 3.2 per cent this year as US expenditure picks up and conflicts from the Middle East to South China Sea fuel demand, according to Deloitte. US defence spending is set to rise since the president-elect, Donald Trump, has expressed a desire to expand the country’s naval…

WASHINGTON — The Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group chopped out of the European theater of operations Dec. 26 and headed home to Norfolk after months of operating in the Arabian Gulf and the Mediterranean, where the strike jets of Carrier Air Wing 3 flew hundreds of missions against Islamic State group targets in Syria…

WASHINGTON — As the 114th Congress comes to a close, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has cleared five notifications of weapon sales to Congress, including Chinook helicopters for Saudi Arabia, Apache helicopters for the United Arab Emirates and TOW missiles for Morocco. If completed, the five sales would have a cumulative total of $7.9…

The US State Department has cleared long-delayed fighter aircraft sales to the Middle East valued at USD31.2 billion. Two notifications posted on the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) website on 17 November announced the approval of 40 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets for Kuwait and 72 Boeing F-15 Advanced Eagles for Qatar, valued at USD10.1 billion…